In an article accompanying a picture of Biggs "as he faces death in prison" the journalist and crime writer Ruth Dudley Edwards railed at the British perception of Biggs as "a rather attractive rascal".
Another presenter, Rick Halperin, a history professor at Southern Methodist University and a prominent opponent of capital punishment, praised Mr. Biggs as a humanitarian and the prisoners for their scholarship.
From the reaction of some commentators, you might have thought he was royalty the dead man's ghost-writer, Christopher Pickard, hailed Mr Biggs as "one of the great characters of the last 50 years".That was nonsense, of course.
Some of his supporters denigrated Biggs as racist, a poor reward for a white man who had regained the council for Labour in 1994, seeing off a rogue Liberal Democrat administration he cryptically describes as a "bolt hole for the League of Cockneys" together with Britain's first British National party councillor.
To "purists" who looked to Biggs as their idol before he died in 1977, classical pipe organs with clear sound capable of articulating Bach's contrapuntal music were the ideal, not vast, orchestral organs like Riverside's that could blast you out of your seat.
He concluded that Rahman had secured his win with the help of "corrupt and illegal practices" involving the payment of canvassers, the false portrayal of Biggs as racist, allocating community grants in a manner that amounted to bribery, the casting of invalid votes and by bringing "undue spiritual influence" to bear on fellow Muslim voters.
Biggs, as the chairman of TIAA-CREF, was deeply involved in such issues.
Biggs, as an inexperienced new cap from rivals Cardiff, was picked out by the crowd as one of those players unworthy of his place and was heckled.
He played the role of a housemate in the first season of Bigg Boss, as a replacement for Salil Ankola.
The reality TV star is due to appear as a guest on India's Bigg Boss this week as part of her first trip to the country.
